Best Games Like Abiotic Factor for Survival Crafting Fans

Abiotic Factor mixes survival crafting, sci-fi weirdness, tight facility exploration, and co-op problem solving. It is the kind of game where a mop, a wrench, and a deeply questionable cafeteria can all matter. If that blend worked for you, these games share pieces of the same formula while taking them in different directions.

10 Games to Play After Abiotic Factor

This list is curated, but not absolute. Some picks lean harder into horror, others into base building, automation, exploration, or multiplayer chaos. Use it as a guide for finding the next survival game that scratches the same itch without simply copying Abiotic Factor's underground research disaster energy.

10. Sons of the Forest

Sons of the Forest and Abiotic Factor both offer survival systems, sandbox elements, solo play, and online multiplayer. The key difference is where the pressure comes from.

Sons of the Forest sends players into an open island full of cannibals, caves, building opportunities, and horror encounters. Abiotic Factor keeps things tighter inside a facility filled with hostile soldiers and interdimensional threats.

Pick Sons of the Forest if you want larger outdoor spaces, heavier horror, and deeper construction. Abiotic Factor has base building too, but it is not about raising giant compounds in the woods.

9. Subnautica

Subnautica shares Abiotic Factor's focus on crafting, exploration, tool-based progression, and strange creatures that make every new biome feel risky. Both games reward curiosity, although curiosity often arrives carrying teeth.

The biggest split is tone and setting. Subnautica is mostly underwater and emphasizes wonder, isolation, and thalassophobia. Multiplayer is possible through mods like Nitrox, but the core experience is built around solo discovery. Combat is also less direct than in Abiotic Factor.

Choose Subnautica if you want beautiful environments, tense exploration, and survival crafting without constant firefights.

8. Raft

Raft, from Redbeet Interactive, trades Abiotic Factor's fixed facility map for a procedurally generated ocean. Instead of scavenging through offices and labs, players expand a floating base while dealing with sharks, weather, and scarce supplies.

Both games are about turning limited resources into progress, especially with friends. Raft simply gives that loop a slower, more open rhythm.

It is a strong follow-up if you want co-op survival, environmental storytelling, and a base that moves with you. Just try not to donate too many floorboards to the shark.

7. Valheim

Valheim and Abiotic Factor share survival crafting foundations, solo and co-op play, resource gathering, and dangerous worlds. Where Abiotic Factor uses sci-fi confinement, Valheim builds around Norse-inspired wilderness.

Valheim is better for players who enjoy patient exploration, large bases, boss progression, and a calmer pace between threats. Abiotic Factor is more claustrophobic and narrative-driven, with fewer trees unless office plants count as forestry.

If you want survival crafting with mythic atmosphere and wide open land, Valheim is an easy recommendation.

6. Satisfactory

Satisfactory and Abiotic Factor both sit in sci-fi territory, include alien environments, and ask players to think carefully about resources. Automation also appears in both, though Satisfactory makes it the center of the entire experience.

Abiotic Factor includes survival needs such as hunger, thirst, and radiation. Satisfactory focuses instead on factory planning, production chains, and building huge industrial systems across alien terrain. Pioneers do not need to eat, drink, or manage bathroom breaks.

Try Satisfactory if the engineering side of Abiotic Factor was your favorite part and you want to turn the landscape into one enormous machine.

5. Rust

Rust is the choice for players who like survival crafting but want far more PvP pressure. Abiotic Factor is mainly cooperative PvE, asking players to work together against the facility's dangers. Rust asks whether the person waving at you is friendly, then often answers with gunfire.

The game is built around crafting, raids, base defense, alliances, betrayal, and high-risk multiplayer survival. It is less about following a fixed narrative and more about creating stories through conflict.

If gunplay, social tension, and open-ended survival sound appealing, Rust offers a harsher alternative.

4. Palworld

Abiotic Factor is a tightly structured survival game set inside a research facility. Palworld is an open-world creature-collecting sandbox where players can explore at their own pace, build bases, and progress with a more relaxed structure.

The contrast is clear from the opening hours. Abiotic Factor starts players in a small area with locked routes, vents, and immediate survival pressure. Palworld opens into a wide map with creatures, crafting, and a softer tone.

Play Palworld if you want survival systems and base building with less claustrophobia and more creature collecting.

3. Enshrouded

Enshrouded is a strong pick for players who enjoyed Abiotic Factor's crafting but want fantasy landscapes instead of facility corridors. It takes place in Embervale, a world threatened by a deadly fog called The Shroud and enemies such as the Fell.

Abiotic Factor often rewards caution, stealth, and careful navigation through a maze-like building. Enshrouded gives players broader landscapes, more direct combat, and detailed base construction.

It is best for survival fans who want exploration, fantasy atmosphere, and room to build something more impressive than an emergency office camp.

2. The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria may be the closest match on this list. Like Abiotic Factor, it combines survival crafting with a confined setting and cooperative play.

Instead of escaping a strange research facility, players enter the mines of Moria and work through a linear journey tied to rebuilding the Dwarven kingdom. The setting is fantasy rather than sci-fi, but the feeling of pushing deeper through dangerous enclosed spaces is familiar.

It is especially appealing for Tolkien fans who want co-op survival with lore, mining, crafting, and plenty of stories hidden in ruined halls.

1. 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die is an open-world survival crafting horror game set in the zombie-filled world of Navezgane. Like Abiotic Factor, it asks players to manage survival needs, gather materials, craft equipment, and stay alive under pressure.

The difference is scale and intensity. 7 Days to Die is more combat-heavy, more open-ended, and built around preparing for the weekly horde. Builders get a lot of room to create defenses, while survival fans get plenty of reasons to keep upgrading them.

Neither game keeps holding your hand after the basics. If you want a brutal sandbox with zombies, base defense, and co-op tension, 7 Days to Die is one of the strongest next stops.